一个家族的精神史诗——论何顿长篇小说《湖南骡子》

摘要

The narrative novel of Hunan Mule by He Dun is deviated from both mainstream narrative mode and a more humane attitude to war, which has realized the rebellion of red narrative and heroic narrative in the sense of the war narrative on the past. He strictly follows its character of logic development to show the history of collective character and spiritual history of nearly a hundred years for Changsha people in the 20th century with a forceful pen power and highlights this spirit＇s rheologieal course in various periods. This novel has extraordinary aesthetic effects in its narrative which aesthetic point of view focus on the fate of the ups and downs and changes of a military family.%何顿长篇小说《湖南骡子》的叙事偏离主流叙事的既有模式，以更人性化的态度看待战争，在战争叙事的意义上实现了对以往“红色叙事”和“英雄叙事”的反叛。作者严格遵循人物性格自身的发展逻辑，以雄浑的笔力展现了20世纪长沙市民近百年的集体性格史和精神史；为凸现这种精神在各个时期的流变历程，作者把审美视点聚焦于一个军人世家的命运沉浮与变迁，使这部小说在叙事上产生了异乎寻常的美学效果。